[shisasan]

Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing tr. Coleman Barks

[iiumz]

[caruccio]

[shocat12]

[unsubconscious]

Illustration by Kathy Calderwood for Playboy magazine, February 1972

[thesorceresstemple]

[midnightinshadow]

[mournfulroses]

Odysseus Elytis, from The Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis; "Seven Nocturnal Septachis,"

[delbaar]

[attheendless]

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Suzana Dželatović

[fleurduart]

Franz von Stuck, The kiss of Sphinx Detail

[ciivll6]

should be us..

[invisibl-women]

Sharing every breath

[luzbelicht]

The Bite - Edvard Munch (1914)

[finita-la-commedia]

“Longing, how soft a word for such a ravenous feeling. How we hunger in silence.”

— Pavana पवन  

[metamorphesque]

― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry